Some regions of the world are dominated by violence, yet elsewhere people lead relatively peaceful lives. The political ...

Businesses are shuttered and public transport is at a standstill in Colombia’s Choco department, as rebels from the National ...

For decades, Buenaventura has been the crown jewel of drug trafficking along Colombia’s Pacific corridor. A detention center ...

Today, the once-fearsome Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, has turned to politics and farming. But it left a vacuum increasingly filled by armed gangs that have shaken Colombia with ...

The United States Department of State branded eight cartels and criminal gangs as terrorist organizations on Wednesday, ...

"I've been in contact with the current Venezuelan government," Colombian President Gustavo Petro said, floating a "joint plan to eradicate armed gangs on the border." Colombia is struggling to ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro arrived in Haiti's southeastern city of Jacmel on Wednesday afternoon in a rare visit by a foreign head of state to the Caribbean nation, as Haiti endures an extended ...

A member of Colombian President Gustavo Petro's security ... heads of state that have visited Haiti recently given a surge in gang violence that has prompted a growing number of leaders in the ...

BOGOTA, Colombia—Almost a decade ago, the most powerful rebel group Latin America had ever seen agreed to lay down its weapons and end its fight to overthrow the Colombian state. The accord with ...